http://imagicke.blogspot.com/2004/11/breaking-media-induced-trance.html Monday, November 22, 2004 Breaking the Media-Induced Trance By Vincent L Guarisco As the Bush administration lurches on, scarcely questioned, it will be all but impossible to inform our fellow citizens of the many horrific injustices that plague our society. Our corporate knife-in-the-back media quickly and blatantly censors anything negative about George Bush by either covering up or deleting all relevant evidence. The roll-over of US mainstream media is one of the most devastating scandals in our history -- there is scarcely a hint of honest, diversified journalism. Yet the information floodgates remain wide open and we are literally drowning in state-sponsored propaganda. It's like we're swimming at night in shark-infested waters with no life raft in sight. George Bernard Shaw (Irish playwright and critic, 1856-1950) had a valid point to make when he wrote, "Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization." Or perhaps historian and author Howard Zinn has the bigger reality picture. Zinn said, "If those in charge of our society -- politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television -- can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves." I think the combination of the two say it perfectly! More times than not it will be an ever-worsening struggle attempting to inform others around us who are blissfully carrying on, seemingly without a worry in the world. However, understanding the matrix of madness will be a rare quality worth memorizing before the hypocrisy is totally cloaked in secrecy. As corporate morality becomes non-existent, and deregulation accelerates, accountability will be a hard case to prove. Perhaps some will think I am over-reacting, but if you stop and think, the day we were warned about is here -- most of us no longer have a substantial voice in our society, and very soon, word of mouth could quite possibly be the only tool left for us to counter the megaphoned liars. Regardless, we must not give up the struggle for spreading truth and freedom to those confused; our children's birthright is depending on our success! http://imagicke.blogspot.com/2004/11/breaking-media-induced-trance.html "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - -Mahatma Ghandi "If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government." - - Dwight D. Eisenhower "I'd rather be Don Quixote than another statistic." - -Douglas L. Wilson "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/XgSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- / o o \ ===OO=====OO============================================= (4)Portals (2)News Wikis (2)Conferences - No BuSHIT! Start here: http://pnews.org/ (On Internet since 1982) http://pnews.org/PhpWiki/ (West Coast News Wiki) http://g0lem.net/PhpWiki/ (East Coast News Wiki) ========================================================= FIGHT THE RIGHT! ================== Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rhetoric-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
